this post was submitted on 20 Apr 2024
319 points (95.4% liked)

Privacy

4211 readers
34 users here now

A community for Lemmy users interested in privacy

Rules:

  1. Be civil
  2. No spam posting
  3. Keep posts on-topic
  4. No trolling

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
iopq@lemmy.world
319
Israel is killing people based on being in the same Whatsapp group (blog.paulbiggar.com)
submitted 7 months ago by ooli@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.world
92 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] LWD@lemm.ee 29 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This is why metadata matters so much. Plenty of "end-to-end encrypted" apps only handle the content of messages, but know on the server side what people are in what places. Or even keep a historical record of who joined and left. Or just don't bother encrypting...

[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There is functionally no way to hide this kind of information from a state actor short of some onion routing scheme mesh networking.

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago

Signal does a decent job just out of the box.